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Date:	Fri, 26 Nov 2004 17:47:17 +1100 (EST)
From:	Luke Kendall <luke DOT kendall AT cisra DOT canon DOT com DOT au>
Subject:	PATH and SystemRoot oddity
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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Message-Id:	<20041126064717.0A1A4837CA@pessard.research.canon.com.au>

I see that by default PATH includes some entries like
%SystemRoot%/System32

I also note that $SystemRoot is undefined, yet $SYSTEMROOT contains the
expected C:\WINDOWS value.

This of course causes problems.  Would a backslash-style path work
correctly if it were properly interpolated into the PATH?  Is the %
notation special magic for Cygwin to handle DOS-isms?

The case variance may be of interest, in that case.

luke


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